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S-6716

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“Ghost guns” are the latest bugaboo so, of course, there’s an effort to ban them.

Newsday reports:

“… On Thursday, two Long Island legislators introduced a bill to outlaw ghost guns, calling the sale of such weapons “shocking.” “We have some of the strongest and most sensible gun laws in this state and to see how people find a way around gun laws is just amazing to me,” Sen. Anna Kaplan (D-North Hempstead), one of the bill sponsors, said. “They come with all the pieces. They give you a video to walk you through the (assembly) process. It takes less than one hour and you walk out with a gun with no serial number and the purchaser has not be subjected to a background check.” Kaplan and Assemb. Charles Lavine (D-Glen Cove) are backing legislation that would prohibit the possession or sale of “unfinished frames and receivers” that can be assembled to make a firearm …”

Her Senate bill is S-6716. I don’t see the Assembly companion yet.

Here is the meat of the bill:

“UNFINISHED FRAME OR RECEIVER” MEANS A FRAME OR RECEIVER OF A FIREARM, RIFLE OR SHOTGUN WHOSE FIRE-CONTROL CAVITY IS COMPLETELY SOLID AND UN-MACHINED, AND WHICH MAY READILY BE MADE INTO A FUNCTIONAL FRAME OR RECEIVER THROUGH MILLING, DRILLING OR OTHER MEANS AND INCLUDES ANY EXPLANATION OTHER OBJECT, PART OR COMBINATION OF PARTS WHICH IS NOT A FUNCTIONAL FRAME OR RECEIVER BUT IS DESIGNED OR INTENDED TO BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE AND CAN BE READILY MADE INTO A FUNCTIONAL FRAME OR RECEIVER.”

Several similar bills were introduced late in the session. I expect the legislature to take up at least one version when the session resumes in January.

Newsbits

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Monday’s Newsbits:

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Targeting FNRA fundraisers

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As a follow-up to my previous post, Senator James Gaughran announced his plans to introduce legislation prohibiting gun raffles:

“… A prospective bill would outlaw making guns the prize for raffles commonly held by community groups and sportsman’s clubs in the latest move to tighten restrictions on firearms in New York. “You shouldn’t be able to simply walk into a catering venue and walk out owning a firearm,” said state Sen. Jim Gaughran, D-Long Island. “This law will protect public safety and advance New York’s commitment to common sense gun reform.” …”

Gaughran’s target is the local FNRA dinners, but it would also effect everything from local firearm/ambulance departments to gun/hunting clubs.  This is a totally phony non-issue, but he doesn’t care.

Video from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s press conference

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Here is video from Rep. Maloney’s press conference today in Middletown.

George @ OCShooters asks a question at the 8:11 mark.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s press conference Saturday

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This Saturday at 2:00pm Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney will hold a press conference immediately following his so-called “Gun Violence Prevention Town Hall” at the Middletown High School auditorium, 30 Gardner Ext Ave., Middletown.

I expect this will be a dog-and-pony show in support of H.R.8.

RES 1044 introduced today

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Councilman Fernando Cabrera introduced RES 1044 to the Clown Council’s Public Safety Committee today:

Whereas, According to the most recent published statistics by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on National Vital Statistics, in 2016 there were 38,658 firearm related deaths in the U.S.; and

Whereas, The AR-15 firearm is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle, which is generally used for hunting but has been used in mass shootings including Sandy Hook Elementary School and the 2017 harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas; and

Whereas, In an effort to stem the potential of future mass shootings, on January 15, 2013, New York State passed the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (“SAFE”) Act, making New York the first state to implement comprehensive and holistic reforms to address the gun violence plague since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School; and

Whereas, The SAFE Act, among other things, amends the definition of assault weapon to capture more dangerous weapons, such as the AR-15, by defining them as (i) a semiautomatic rifle or pistol that has an ability to accept a detachable magazine and has at least one military-style characteristic such as a folding stock or protruding pistol grip; and

Whereas, In an effort to skirt New York State law, gun manufacturers have been producing “modified” AR-15 firearms that technically declassify them as an assault weapon, thus allowing for their sale in the state; and

Whereas, AR-15s are modified by removing their protruding pistol grip and their adjustable stock, which then makes the firearm compliant with New York State law; and

Whereas, For all intent and purposes, the modified firearm still functions as an assault weapon; and

Whereas, On June 30, 2017, Dr. Henry Bello, a former and disgruntled employee of Bronx Lebanon Hospital, walked into the facility with a modified AR-15 assault rifle, which he purchased at an upstate gun shop, and shot seven individuals, killing Dr. Tracy Sin-Yee Tam and wounding six others before turning the gun on himself; and

Whereas, This tragedy may have been averted if the assailant was not permitted to purchase this modified assault weapon; and

Whereas, New York State should close the statutory loophole permitting such modification and outlaw these firearms, as the SAFE Act was first intended to do; and

Whereas, New York State will be a safer place when any modification to an AR-15 is made illegal; now, therefore be it

Resolved, That the Council of the City of New York calls on the New York State Legislature to introduce and pass and for the Governor to sign legislation making it illegal to remodify an AR-15 firearm.